Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Brechfa
Llansantffraed, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanon, Llansantffraed, Ceredigion, designated on 31 October 1977.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 October 1977
- Locality
- Llanon
- Community
- Llansantffraed
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.28392, -4.17490
- Cadw reference
- 10690
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 78. Lampeter. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated towards the NE end of Llanon some 50m SE of the A487 and approached through a small field.
History
Pair of single storey cottages, probably early C19, with later two-storey section to left. Now one house.
Exterior
Rubble stone with slate roofs. Taller left section is 2-window, offset to right, with end stone stacks, 12-pane sashes and door with overlight. Stone voussoirs. Two cottages are both double-fronted with 16-pane tilting windows and centre doors. Stone voussoirs. Ridge stack and right end stack. Lean-to on right end wall.
Interior
Left end 2-storey section has boarding within entry with pencil graffiti probably late C19. Left cottage has left end lath-and-plaster chimney hood on thin cross beam. Centre passage is cobbled. There is no internal sign of fireplaces for the centre ridge stack.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good vernacular cottage row of scarce regional type, still with fireplace hood and cobbled floor within.
Nearby in the register
- GlandwrDomesticunder 1 mi
- WerndegDomesticunder 1 mi
- MaesllynDomesticunder 1 mi
- BarbaraDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.